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Map XML Reader Tool

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 6:41 am
by kevinc
Hey,

Inspired my Jota's excellent Map Assistant and Map Maker tools I thought I'd write something that should help too.

Announcing: Conquer Club: XML Map Reader

It allows you to see the links between countries easily. So, once you've created your XML and map, and just want to debug it, you can just pop them in there, and you'll be able to see if you've made all your connections correctly.

Hope it's useful to some of you map makers! :)


Notes:
I only own Flash MX 2004, so it currently only imports jpegs at the moment. I'll export it to Flash 8 so it can loads pngs & gifs when I'm in work in teh next few days. In the mean time, if you want to use it, then just upload a jpeg for testing purposes.

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 7:05 am
by PaperPlunger
AWESOME!

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 7:24 am
by Haydena
Wow... I must say... That is great...

No more moaning about attacking and fortifying bugs... Well done!

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:33 am
by kevinc
Thanks! :)

Also, I just realised it can be useful for general users too.

Just go to: http://www.conquerclub.com/maps/ and get the XML and image addresses, if your not sure if something is connected or not, and you can check yourself.

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:45 am
by Derwiddle
Wow! Genius. :wink:

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 9:56 am
by ThuMp
Very nice!

...maybe ad a link back to the begining? (using Firefox 1.5, I cannot back up)

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:03 am
by kevinc
ThuMp wrote:...maybe ad a link back to the begining? (using Firefox 1.5, I cannot back up)


The code is pretty quick and dirty. Just hit Refresh is you want to check another file. I might get a chance to make a better version in the future.

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 7:51 pm
by Jota
Excellent.

PostPosted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:12 pm
by AndyDufresne
Adjective! But seriously, I'm sure it will be a very handy tool for everyone.


--Andy

PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 2:20 am
by Mr. K
Looks like a great program. I couldn't get it to work for some reason on my map, though. My map showed up but none of the lines or dots appeared, even though I had already tested my XML alright.

PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 2:23 am
by Hoff
Thats because you did a map of ancient greece and they didnt have fancy computer lines back then.

PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:58 am
by kevinc
I've updated it slightly now:
  • Should be able load all XML maps you throw at it (any trouble pm me)
  • Can loads pngs & gifs too
  • Can load new map without hitting refresh

PostPosted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:17 pm
by Jota
Just used this to check over my XML before sending my Space map to lack. Thanks!

PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:24 am
by kevinc
Cool. Glad to hear it's been useful to ya!

PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2006 6:19 pm
by fluffybunnykins
that's mighty fine
(I thought blowaway was cool too)

PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:18 am
by kevinc
fluffybunnykins wrote:(I thought blowaway was cool too)


Thanks man - we had great fun working on it! :)

PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2006 12:57 pm
by fluffybunnykins
off topic, i know, but how did you make the round screen? was it a projection?

PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2006 6:28 pm
by MrConfigT
I can't get to the tool anymore...

looks like the domain might have expired?

If you need me to host it I can :)

PostPosted: Mon May 15, 2006 5:24 am
by fluffybunnykins
¡yo tam poco!
¿por qué en español? no tengo ningún idea...

PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:33 am
by kevinc
MrConfigT, I was just switching hosts and stuff. It's back up now.

fluffybunnykins, yea, it was a rear projection system with 2 mirrors. Quite a pain to work out all the angles. You can see the setup here: http://www.blowaway.org/project/table/
http://www.blowaway.org/media/images/setup_tests/

PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:58 am
by Fantius
Very cool, but it would be even better for general users if we could hit your page and select the production map from a drop down instead of having to type or paste file names.

PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:51 pm
by smithkt
I'd like to echo Fantius' suggestion. That would be a great upgrade to this. In addition, when I use the World 2.0 map, it cuts off the right side.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:04 pm
by JMan424
Is there any way to get this functionality in the game itself?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:37 pm
by ericisshort
I think it might make the map in the game a little busy... but when you click on the small icon of the map, this handy dandy doodad should pop up instead of the current icon.

Seems to have a bug in it for larger maps, like arctic and world2.0

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:01 pm
by Stoney229
how do I find the xmal file for a certain map that I want to check the paths for?